Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Major points from the workshop
- 2.1 General direction
- 2.2 Survey content
- 2.3 Methods
- 2.4 Steps to progress the survey
- 3 Background presentations
- 3.1 National health information scene
- 3.2 General issues in blood surveys
- 3.3 An overview of blood data needs
- 3.4 New Zealand experience in biomedical risk factor surveys
- 3.5 Future ABS health surveys
- 3.6 General discussion
- 4 Priorities for blood analysis-scope and content
- 4.1 Cardiovascular disease
- 4.2 Diabetes
- 4.3 Nutrition
- 4.4 Cancer
- 4.5 Genetic and other biomarkers
- 4.6 Communicable diseases
- 5 Advancing the survey
- 5.1 Aims and priorities
- 5.2 Ethical considerations
- 5.3 Coverage
- 5.4 Ownership of the data
- 5.5 Survey design options
- 5.6 Continuity with previous surveys
- 5.7 Funding
- 5.8 The way forward
- Appendix A: Workshop program
- Appendix B: List of participants
- Appendix C: Workshop data issues papers
- Data issues paper no. 1: cardiovascular disease
- Data issues paper no. 2: diabetes
- Data issues paper no. 3: nutrition
- Data issues paper no. 4: cancer
- Data issues paper no. 5: genetics
- Data issues paper no. 6: communicable diseases
- Appendix D: Briefing paper on National Biomedical Risk Factor Survey
- Attachment 1: Aims of the survey
- Attachment 2: Comparability with previous Australian and international surveys
- Attachment 3: Blood and urine assessments in NHANES III